Love Scout [NEW]

"Someone who sees me shelving a book wrong and doesn't fix it. Someone who just… watches. And wonders why." Leo resigned from Heartstring Partners the next morning.

"Hi," he said. "This is going to sound strange." Love Scout

He opened his mouth. Closed it. Then, because he was a scout for the largest talent agency in the city and couldn't help himself, he said, "You know that’s fiction, right?" "Someone who sees me shelving a book wrong

"Why?"

The first time Leo saw her, she was returning a misplaced book to the wrong shelf. "Hi," he said

Not because she was difficult—she was, but in ways he admired. The problem was that every match he sent her way, she rejected for reasons that made too much sense . The poet was afraid of silence. The surgeon had never read a book for pleasure. The musician loved her potential more than her reality.